Peter NobelPeter Nobel

Born: 1945

Nationality: Swiss

Education and professional activities:

Professor Dr. Peter Nobel studied political science at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). He graduated in 1973 with a doctoral thesis entitled “The Harmonization of Corporation Law in the European Common Market”. Professor Nobel was also a visiting scholar at the Lomonossov University of Moscow and at Columbia University School of Law in New York. He received his Habilitation from HSG in 1981, where he was also a lecturer since 1982. In 1984, he was awarded the title of Professor and in 1997, he became a professor “Extraordinarius” for private, trade and commercial Law. Professor Nobel also served as director of the Institute for European Law at HSG.

Although he retired from HSG in 2010, he continued to hold the position of “Ordinary Professor ad personam” for Swiss and international business and commercial law at the University of Zurich, a position he has held since March 2007. Professor Nobel has also served as Editor-in-Chief of the “Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht” since 1995, and he has been a member of the editorial board of the “European Company and Financial Law Review”. Since 2006, he has also been a member of the editorial team of the on-line professional magazine “Jusletter”.
Professor Nobel became a founding partner of Nobel & Hug in 1982. For 17 years, he served as a part-time professional judge at the Superior Court and the Court of Commerce in the Canton of Zurich. From 1988 to 2000, he served as a member of the Swiss Federal Banking Commission Board (today, “FINMA”).